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Old 29-04-2010, 10:00
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I'm currently eating some up. Do you eat stuff months past the date?

Been eating those small boxes of cereals from the Variety packs that I bought for breakfasts when my daughter had sleepovers. They're a year past the Best Before date but seem okay to me. Mind you the Shreddies seemed an odd colour this morning.

Have a Christmas pudding that expired on 31st Jan and intending eating that this weekend. We bought 36 Cornettos for my daughter's party last Oct and forgot to give them to them. They expired Dec 31st so I'm eating those as my wife and daughter won't.
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:01
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Not months past, no.

A few days, maybe a week if it's been in the freezer. Only if it's best before, though, not use by.
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:03
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Well these aren't fresh foods so I should live to tell the tale!
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:16
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If it smells fresh, I eat it.
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:17
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I'm awful when it comes to dates on food. I can't eat it if the use by date has passed or even the sell by date even though i know there is probably nothing wrong with it. I'm always digging to the back of the shelves for the fresher stuff aswel. I don't bin anything unless it looks or smells like it needs binning - I usually just leave it for somebody who will eat it.
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:19
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Bacteria creates a spore around itself and survives in your freezer, after the sell by date, it begins to grow inside the spore into a tiny lavae. Once ingested it will live in your intestine eating away at your posterior until eventually you'll need an operation to remove your rectum and spend the rest of your life shitting through a tube.
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:21
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Bacteria creates a spore around itself and survives in your freezer, after the sell by date, it begins to grow inside the spore into a tiny lavae. Once ingested it will live in your intestine eating away at your posteria until eventually you'll need an operation to remove your rectum and spend the rest of your life shitting through a tube.
Right those Cornettos are going in the bin now.
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:32
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Bacteria creates a spore around itself and survives in your freezer, after the sell by date, it begins to grow inside the spore into a tiny lavae. Once ingested it will live in your intestine eating away at your posteria until eventually you'll need an operation to remove your rectum and spend the rest of your life shitting through a tube.
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:34
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If it smells fresh, I eat it.
same here....

i actually have a couple of christmas puds and fruit cakes that my Mam cooked me - she became ill in 2006 and died 2007 so i think they must have been made for christmas 2005.

i still eat them as they only get better with age if stored correctly (in a cool dark place with an apple in the container).
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:34
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A colleague of mine does this, he seems to be off a lot with stomach complaints but does not link the two facts.
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:37
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A colleague of mine does this, he seems to be off a lot with stomach complaints but does not link the two facts.
I have a friend who does too. The dates are on there for a reason not to decorate the packaging. I am rather a stickler if it is past its use by date then it doesn't get eaten. But, as I am totally anti waste this rarely happens. Smug smilie!!
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:47
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My partner has complete disdain for best before dates. Not so much on fresh foods (as others - if it smells ok, it is ok) but packets tins and jars providing they are sealed he will pretty much eat anything, months & months past proclaiming the dates as "rubbish". I'm less keen, being a bit more tickle-stomached but I see his point on some things and dont have a problem with tins/packets/jars a few months past because they already have about 2 years life on them when they're packaged so obviously to cover themselves they're gona ensure they'll be ok a bit beyond that
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:50
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Things like creme broulai or prawn salad or fondu are terribly out of date but I would still eat them at a party or something.
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Old 29-04-2010, 10:50
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The christmas pud should be fine I have eaten it a year out of date , I'd examine it for mould first though.
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Old 29-04-2010, 11:40
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I am almost obsessive about sell-by/use-by dates and won't eat anything that is even too near the date. I don't really see the point in taking a risk to your health by eating something that might make you ill. Mind you, I am emetophobic so this probably explains why.
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Old 29-04-2010, 11:48
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I don't like to eat things past their "use by" date, but it depends what it is. If it's a packet of crisps out of date by a day or so then I'd probably still eat them, but if it was anything in my fridge/freezer or tin cupboard, then I wouldn't.
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Old 29-04-2010, 11:50
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There is a huge difference between out of date biscuits or cornflakes or dry food and fresh meat or dairy
I would eat dry food out of date as it manily only a guidline for that anyway
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Old 29-04-2010, 11:52
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Unless it's fish or a dairy product, 'use by' dates are pretty BS in my opinion. If it looks and smells ok, I'll happily eat it.
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Old 29-04-2010, 11:56
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I won't eat anything out of date, even if its sell by date, same as I won't eat meat then has been placed in the freezer if its past its sell by date.
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Old 29-04-2010, 11:59
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Never months, only ever a few days if it has been kept in the fridge, but never milk.

I've had milk go off before the best before date even when it's been stored in the fridge continuously. I poured it in my cereal and took a spoonful. It was so disgusting that I now throw milk away the day before the best before date just to be on the safe side.
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Old 29-04-2010, 12:02
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Fish, shellfish, chicken, never but anything else I'd consider eating it if it looked and smelled ok, especially dry food and M&S food (but that might be because I'm tight). Depends on your fridge as well, if your fridge or freezer doesn't maintain the correct temp then the chances are things might be turning even though they're well within their UBD.
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Old 29-04-2010, 12:15
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I don't like to eat things past their "use by" date, but it depends what it is. If it's a packet of crisps out of date by a day or so then I'd probably still eat them, but if it was anything in my fridge/freezer or tin cupboard, then I wouldn't.
So how do you think you would of coped in the days before dated food?

Remember best before dates are very different to use by dates, things like crisps which have best before dates could be eaten months after with no ill effect, just probably wont be as fresh/crispy.
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Old 29-04-2010, 13:01
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It depends on what it is. I once had a jar of marmalade that was years, yes years, out of date and was absolutely fine.
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Old 29-04-2010, 13:13
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I'm knew someone who worked in a sausgae factory and they told me that if the sausages got too close to the best before date - they used to just re pack them with a longer date on.

I trust my nose more than the date on the packet.
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Old 29-04-2010, 13:14
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I am almost obsessive about sell-by/use-by dates and won't eat anything that is even too near the date. I don't really see the point in taking a risk to your health by eating something that might make you ill. Mind you, I am emetophobic so this probably explains why.
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I am getting better, but even as some who has very little money, I'd much rather chuck something I'm not 100% on, because it's just not worth being ill. But then, being emetophobic means I am often not 100% on stuff that is totally fine and would bother nobody else.
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